Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behind the times. You are vestiges of a past era. For the time has come when Hollywood has taken your game and developed it into a big-time sport. ... If you were good enough promoters, you would not be here. You would be out there where negotiations run into big money. . . . Now something is wrong, so these Hoovers of Broadway call a meeting together to find out what they think...
Being a playwright's playwright and, at 45, a man with a serious social conscience he was persuaded to head the Dramatists'' Guild in 1935. In spite of his close Hollywood connections, he immediately set about revising the standard Guild playwright's contract so that now if a film company is the financial backer of a legitimate show, it must purchase the film rights at a price set by the author and a group of negotiators, or else let it-be sold in the open market. This clause prevents the film producer from taking unlimited advantage...
...fact that such a realistic practitioner as Sidney Howard continues to return from Hollywood season after season is, in the end, the soundest answer to croakers of the Theatre's doom. Like George Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Robert Sherwood and dozens of writers who make much or most of their incomes from the great bustling film industry, he knows that legitimate show business is not very big business, not even business. It is a gamble for all concerned and even the producer does not stand to make money in very large quantities. Gilbert Miller is delighted when Tovarich grosses...
...Paris (Paramount) mine the photographically rich vein of winter sports which, extensively explored by European producers, has heretofore been neglected by Hollywood. On her first trip abroad, in flight from a tedious suitor in New York, Fashion Designer Kay Denham (Claudette Colbert) picks up two personable Americans in a Paris bar. One is Gene Anders (Robert Young) who hoping to gratify his inclination for casual romance, suggests a trip to Switzerland. The other is his friend George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon...
Pick a Star (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) slapsticks the story of the sweet young girl who makes good in Hollywood. In Waterloo, Kans., pretty Cecilia Moore (Rosina Lawrence) wins a beauty contest managed by her boy friend Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley) only to find that the prize money has been stolen. Chagrined to see her humiliated, Joe journeys to Hollywood to try to land her a film job. But the forced landing of an American Airlines plane at Waterloo gives screenstruck Cecilia her chance to meet Cinemactor Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), fly out to the Coast with him and her noisy...